Drive Against Open Shafts in Kansas and Oklahoma
Five young siblings drowned in a week spurred a regional effort to seal abandoned mine shafts in southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. Baxter Springs Council directed police to locate remaining shafts for filling after most have been closed. Waterfront accidents killed two brothers in Galena and two boys in Commerce with a third in Treece.
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Baxter Springs
Kan.a
Kansas
Oklahoma
Baxter Spring
Fred Weston
Leroy Brunson
Percy Brown
Galena
Kan
Commerce
Okla
Treece
Long Wait in Rain Profits a Friend
Don Bertram sat on a storefront sidewalk in Great Bend Kansas during a thunderstorm at 12 30 a m awaiting store opening at 10 a m to shop for a piece of furniture. Police and fire crews responded for aid after the rainstorm caused damage but Bertram said he was fine and simply waiting.
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Great Bend
Kan
Don Bertram
Bertram
Furniture sale tale ends with friend’s request
A buyer persisted to purchase a $239.95 living room suite while a $39.88 sale tag appeared. Bertram revealed the purchase was done for a friend who wanted the furniture.
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Bertram
Humboldt Washington School Awards Tie To Reading Effort
An awards assembly at Humboldt Washington School recognized students for perfect attendance and spelling. Reading certificates and seals tied to a Kansas University project honored those reading 12 books with silver seals and 25 books with gold seals, listing multiple students by grade and name.
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Washington School
Robert Boyd
Patricia Rinehart
Chuck Gillham
Phillip Honeycutt
Charlene Barr
Mary Honeycutt
Gregory Johnson
Lynn Seyfert
William Clements
Teresa Ortiz
Judith Pilcher
Kenneth Julich
Craig Crane
Evelyn Seyfert
Janet McIrwin
Beth Honeycutt
Alice Cheney
Darrel Krone
Terry Franklin
Sherry Bennett
Dale Boyd
Jane Chamberlain
Donna Daniels
Jacqueline Dietrich
Rex Gillham
Larry Lee
Jerry Ludlum
Vila Pollman
Danny
Gold Seal and Jayhawker Award Winners Listed
A lengthy list details Gold Seal and Silver Seal certificates for students across grades 3 to 6, naming recipients such as Booe Gloria Osborne Susan Binns Carl Osborne and Alice Cheney. Rotary attendance contest notes and a Rural Life Sunday observance follow with event details and attendees.
Press notices list visitors and club meeting change
Pam Lavonbury Irwin Sanders and Allie Sanders Moran Mrs Harold Whitaker Harold Dean and Mary Jo Will Sanders of Stafford visited Sunday evening. Mrs Munson has been seriously ill. Chapter AM of PEO will meet Thursday instead of Tuesday due to commencement exercises Tuesday night. Mrs Elmer Harwood will be hostess.
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Pam
Lavonbury
Irwin Sanders
Allie Sanders
Moran
Harold Whitaker
Harold Dean
Mary Jo
Will Sanders
Stafford
Munson
PEO
Elmer Harwood
Long Walk Half Over By Mrs Moore On Spartan Hike
Dr Barbara Moore nears the halfway point of her San Francisco to New York trek as she reaches Yo cement o eight miles east of Ellis Kansas. After 41 days on the road she has 17 days remaining to finish the journey through bitter winds and open plains.
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Ellis, Kan
Barbara Moore
San Francisco
New York
Yocemento
Ellis
Woman pursues New York goal amid tough trek and diet
Dr. Moore reports losing 14 pounds on a strict vegetarian plan as she aims to reach New York by June 10. She halted four miles west of Ellis after 36 miles for the day, planning a 55 mile leg to Hays. A thunderstorm stirred dust while two others rafted to safety and two made shore.
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New York
Huxley Named Visiting Professor at MIT
Cambridge Massachusetts Aldous Huxley 66 accepts appointment as visiting professor of humanities for the fall term at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Cambridge, Mass
Aldous Huxley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Notre Dame Enrolls 35 Foreign Countries Students
Notre Dame University reports enrollment of students from 35 foreign countries. The international contingent highlights its diverse student body and global ties.
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Notre Dame University
Two In Cataract Canyon Search For Two Boatmen
An air land and water search continued for two boatmen feared drowned after a raft in Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River capsized. Missing are Keith Hoover, 36, and Leon Peterson, 33, both of Provo, Utah, among a group of 12 aboard the motor raft attempting the 28 mile rapids.
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Monticello
Utah
Colorado River
Keith Howard Hoovyer
Leon Peterson
Provo
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